Last month, Malka and I jumped on a couple of civity opportunities to be in conversation with people different from us. We both participated in the StoryCorps Connect250 invitation to record a …
Continue reading “Americans in Conversation: “I Dream a World…””
At 6 p.m., ten students join me at the gate. Sharp New England wind cuts through the air, but we are oblivious, warmed by excited chatter. We have come to …
Civity is thrilled to partner with the American Conversation Project (ACP) — a nonpartisan national civic listening initiative led by the National Conference on Citizenship, in partnership with Cortico and a growing coalition of civic, …
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We swim in the water of the systems we’re in. And because we’re used to this water—these systems—they come to be invisible and sometimes appear inevitable to us. The water …
Continue reading “Water, Systems, & the Stories We Tell Ourselves”
Malka and I recently had the honor of participating in a meeting at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The occasion was the wrapping up of Our Common Purpose …
We’re thrilled to announce that, with support from the JAMS Foundation, we will be kicking off an exciting new project this fall in Louisville, KY: Enabling Good Governance and Community Thriving …
Continue reading “New Community-Based Social Trust Project Starts This Fall!”
Civity has joined Living Room Conversations, the National Institute for Civil Discourse, the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, Interfaith America, AllSides, and a growing network of local and national leaders in the Trustworthy Elections …
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As we approach America’s 250th anniversary, we at Civity share with many others a deep concern about the health of our democracy. We value a rule of law that applies the …
Continue reading “To Fix Our Democracy, We Need to Go to the Heart”
When I hear the same thing from multiple sources and in multiple ways, I pay attention. This kind of synchronicity means that something big is happening and that lots of …
As many of you know, the Civity team submitted an intervention in the Stanford-based Strengthening Democracy Challenge back in 2021. The Challenge was to test whether online interventions of eight minutes or …
Continue reading “The Civity Storytelling Intervention Goes to Minnesota”
